Good exists - a Catholic comments

[FrustratedFool]

Retributive justice doesn't make much sense with or without free will. And we don't need free will to believe that we are all products of our environment.

I think retribution as a deterrent or as a character corrective makes some sense. But fair enough, we likely largely agree on that. And yes, we are all products of our environment. The extent of the effect of environment (or genetics or whatever) has upon our choices is not something a determinist needs to be overly concerned with (in this conversation), so I'll leave that for libertarians to discuss.

But, in short, my beliefs do impact my actions to some degree.